Gary Tiedemann
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Daniel, Prince Wednesday, and Miss Elaina are playing at the park with Prince Tuesday. The group decides to play a game of animal ball, but Daniel can't seem to catch the ball. With some encouragement from Prince Tuesday, Daniel discovers that if he keeps trying, he will get better.
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"Examines the impact of the 1959 Cuban Revolution on four children from very different walks of life. In the wake of a new regime in Cuba, Ana, Miguel, Zulema, and Juan learn to find a place for themselves in a world forever changed. In a tumultuous moment of history, we see the lasting effects of a revolution in Havana, the countryside, Miami, and New York. Their separate narratives build, overlap, and entwine to creat one inspiring story--an adventure...
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A trusted nutrition consultant, whose clients include LeBron James, Cindy Crawford, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Lindsey Vonn, uses proven life-changing methods to paint a clear picture of why stepping away from dieting methods can end the vicious cycle of weight gain.
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2023 FPPL Latine/Hispanic Heritage Month Reading List
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National Hispanic Heritage Month (SCPL)
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Fiction Staff Picks
National Hispanic Heritage Month (SCPL)
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"From an award-winning storyteller comes a stunning debut novel following a New Mexican family's extraordinary year of love and sacrifice. It's Holy Week in the small town of Las Penas, New Mexico, and thirty-three-year-old unemployed Amadeo Padilla has been given the part of Jesus in the Good Friday procession. He is preparing feverishly for this role when his fifteen-year-old daughter Angel shows up pregnant on his doorstep and disrupts his plans....
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Hispanic Heritage 2023
National Hispanic Heritage Month - Teens
OBD Latinx & Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15-October 15) - Youth
Unidos: Celebrate Hispanic Heritage (teens)
National Hispanic Heritage Month - Teens
OBD Latinx & Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15-October 15) - Youth
Unidos: Celebrate Hispanic Heritage (teens)
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Alex is a baseball player. A great one. His papi is pushing him to go pro, but Alex maybe wants to be a poet. Not that Papi would understand or allow that. Isa is a dancer. She'd love to go pro, if only her Havana-born mom weren't dead set against it...just like she's dead set against her daughter falling for a Latino. And Isa's privileged private-school life-with her dad losing his job and her older brother struggling with mental illness-is falling...
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"This funny and fact-filled picture book is all about blood: where it's found, what it does, how it travels, and why vampires shouldn't drink it. From the four chambers of the heart to the platelets that clot your blood when you scrape your knee, everything you want to know about the cardiovascular system is right inside these pages. Just watch out for thirsty vampires"--